Love is a friendship
that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing
and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad. It settles for less
than perfection, and makes allowances for human weakness. Love is content
with the present. It hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the
past. It's the day-in and day-out chronicle of irritations, problems,
compromises, small disappointments, big victories, and working toward
common goals. If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great
many things you lack. If you don't have it, no matter what else there
is, it is not enough, so search for it, ask God for it, and share it!

Author
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Sooner
or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines
and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now,
real
and true, the most important thing in our lives. For love is the creator
of our favourite
memories and the foundation of our fondest dreams. Love is a promise that
is
always kept, a fortune that can never be spent, a seed that can flourish
in even the
most unlikely of places. And this radiance that never fades, this mysterious
and
magical joy, is the greatest treasure of all - one known only by those
who love.

Thomas
a Kempis, 1379-1471

Love
is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good. By itself it makes what
is
heavy light; and bears evenly all that is uneven.

It carries a burden which is no burden; it will not be kept back by anything
low and
mean; it desires to be free from all wordly affections, and not to be
entangled by any
outward prosperity, or by any adversity subdued.

Love
feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its
strength,
pleads no excuse of impossibility. It is therefore able to undertake all
things, and it
completes many things, and warrants them to take effect, where he who
does not love would faint and lie down.

Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened;
though alarmed, it
is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and
securely passes
through all.

The
most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human
being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy
as the years increase.
This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most
marvellous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately
wishing for it. It is a sort
of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life.

William Shakespeare,1564
- 1616

Love comforteth like
sunshine after rain. l.
799

Doubt thou the stars
are fire; doubt that the sun doth move; doubt truth to be a liar; but
never doubt I love you.
II, ii, 115

I love thee, I love
but thee with a love that shall not die. Till the sun grows cold and the
stars grow old.

If love were what
the rose is, and I were like the leaf, our lives would grow together in
sad or singing weather.

Elivis Presley, 1935
- 1977, Love Me Tender [1956]

Love me tender, love
me sweet, never let me go.

Henry Drummond

You will find as
you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived
are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

Rainer Maria Rilke

For one human being
to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of our tasks; the
ultimate, the last test and proof; the work for which all other work is
but preparation.

Mahatma Gandhi

Where there is love
there is life.

Aphra Behn

Each moment of a
happy love's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Christopher Marlowe

Who ever loved that
loved not at first sight?

La Bruyere

We perceive when
love begins and when it declines by our embarrassment when alone together.

St. Augustine

Better to have loved
and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Les Miserables

To love another person
is to see the face of God.

Alexander Smith

Love is but the discovery
of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sympathy constitutes
friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy,or opposing passion.
Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

Charles Caleb Colton

Friendship often
ends in love; but love in friendship - never.

Lawrence Durrell

The richest love
is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

Stendhal

A very small degree
of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

Thoreau

There is no remedy
for love but to love more.

Leo F. Buscaglia

Death is a challenge.
It tells us not to waste time... It tells us to tell each other right
now that we love each other.

Dr. Karl Menninger

Love cures people
- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

William M. Thackeray

To love and win
is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, b. 1906

When
you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same
way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to
pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. We have so
little faith in the ebb and
flow of life, of love, of relationships. We leap at the flow of the tide
and resist in terror its ebb. We are afraid it will never return. We insist
on permanency, on duration, on continuity; when the only continuity possible,
in life as in love, is in growth, in fluidity - in freedom, in the sense
that the dancers are free, barely touching as they pass, but partners
in the same pattern.

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding
or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither
in looking back to what was in nostalgia, nor forward to what it might
be in dread or anticipation, but
living in the present relationship and accepting it as it is now. Relationships
must be like islands, one must accept them for what they are here and
now, within their limits - islands, surrounded and interrupted by the
sea, and continually visited and abandoned by the tides.

Soren Kierkegaard

Don't forget to love
yourself.

Alicia Barnhart

True love never dies,
for it is lust that fades away. Love bonds for a lifetime but lust just
pushes away.

Abraham Crowley

A mighty pain to
love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the
greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.

John Donne

Love built on beauty,
soon as beauty, dies.

Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in
love with himself will have no rivals.

Henry Ward Beecher

I never knew how
to worship until I knew how to love.

Joseph Conrad

Woe to the man whose
heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust
in life.

Don Byas

You call it madness,
but I call it love.

Buddha

He who loves 50 people
has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.

Ingrid Bergman

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words
become superfluous.

Will Moss

Love is not blind
- It sees more and not less, but because it sees more it is willing to
see less.

Margaret Atwood

The eskimos have
52 words for snow because it is so special to them; there ought to be
as many for love!

Kaleel Jamison

Relationships--of
all kinds--are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open
hand, the sand remains where it is. The minute you close your hand and
squeeze tightly to hold on, the sand trickles through your fingers. You
may hold onto some of it, but most will be spilled. A relationship is
like that. Held loosely, with respect and freedom for the other person,
it is likely to remain intact. But hold too tightly, too possessively,
and the relationship slips away and is lost.

Karen Casey

Truly loving another
means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration
of another's personhood.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Sometimes the heart
sees what is invisible to the eye.

Oscar Wilde

Who, being loved,
is poor?

Ashleigh Brilliant

There is one pain
I often feel, which you'll never know. It's caused by absence of you.

George Elliot

That farewell kiss
which resembles greeting; that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest
pang of sorrow.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

It is only with the
heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the
eye.

Helen Keller

The best and most
beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must
be felt with the heart.

Charles Augustin Sainte-Beauve

Tell me who admires
and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

Francois do La Rochefoucauld

We forgive to the
extent that we love.

True love is like
ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

When we are in love
we often doubt that which we most believe.

There is no disguise
which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it
does not.

D.H. Lawrence

Those that go searching
for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never
find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek it.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who is devoid
of the power to forgive, is devoid of the power to love.

Victor Hugo

The supreme happiness
in life is the conviction that we are loved.

Louisa May Alcott

Love is a great beautifier.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love and you shall
be loved.

Anonymous quotes on love

The greatest happiness
of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather,
loved in spite of ourselves.

You don't love a
woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love
her.

If you love someone,
let them go. If they return to you, it was meant to be. If they don't,
their love was never yours to begin with...

Love is hard work;
and hard work sometimes hurts!

Who says love never
lives? Maybe we've never lived.

Some love lasts a
lifetime. True love lasts forever.

If love is great,
and there are no greater things, then what I feel for you must be the
greatest.

Love is like playing
the piano. First you must learn to play by the rules, then you must forget
the rules and play from your heart.

If I could reach
up and hold a star for every time you've made me smile, the entire evening
sky would be in the palm of my hand.

We all want to fall
in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive.
Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday
reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last
a moment, an hour, an afternoon. But that doesn't diminish its value,
because we are left with memories that we treasure to the rest of our
lives.

Never underestimate
the power of love.

The way to love anything
is to realize it may be lost.

The heart has its
reasons that reason does not know at all.

Music is love in
search of a word.

Mother Theresa

It is easy to love
people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is
easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness
and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home
for this is where our love for each other must start.

If you judge people,
you have no time to love them.

Paul Tillich

The first duty of
love is to listen.

The Best Portion Of A Good Man's Life,William
Wordsworth (1770-1850)

The
best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts,
Of kindness and of love.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910

When you fish for
love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

George Sands, 1894-1876

There is only one
happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862

There is no remedy
for love than to love more.

From the film Don Juan DeMarco, 1995

"There are only
four questions of value in life, Don Octavio.
What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made?
What is worth living for? What is worth dying for?
The answer to each is the same. Only love."

Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790

If you want to be
loved, love and be loveable.

William Shakespeare, 1564-1616

Love looks not with
the eyes, but with the mind...

Benjamin Disraeli,1804-1881

The magic of first
love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Plato, c. 428-348

Love is the joy of
the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods.

Robert Browning, 1812-1889

Grow old along with
me, the best is yet to be.

Plautus, c.254-184 BC

Spice a dish with
love and it pleases every palate.

Sophocles, c. 496-406 BC

One word frees us
of all the weight and pain of life; that word is love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882

The only gift is
a portion of thyself.

Voltaire, 1694-1778

Love those who love
you.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery,1900-1944

Life has taughts
us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but looking outward
in the same direction.